Quake III Arena
Quake III: Team Arena
Installation instructions
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What you need:
- retail CD-ROM of Quake III Arena for Windows or linux
- optionally, retail CD-ROM of Quake III: Team Arena
- a computer running linux (kernel >= 2.2 glibc >= 2.1)
- running the client requires X11 and 3D hardware acceleration with OpenGL
Installation:
If you have the retail CD-ROM of Quake III Arena for linux:
- install Quake III Arena from the CD-ROM
- run the Point Release installer
(to buy Quake III Arena for linux online, try http://www.tuxgames.com/)
If you have the retail CD-ROM of Quake III Arena for Windows:
- run the Point Release installer first
- now you need to copy the main pak files from the CD-ROM
or from your win32 partition. Namely, you need to copy baseq3/pak0.pk3
and for Team Arena, missionpack/pak0.pk3
see below for more instructions on how to copy the files:
WARNING: Those instructions are provided as a reference,
depending on your distribution the CD-ROM might not have the same
mount point. Please refer to your linux documentation for additional
information.
- open a root shell and cd to the default installation path:
cd /usr/local/games/quake3
- mount the Quake III Arena CD-ROM and install the game content
cp /mnt/cdrom/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3
- optionally, mount the Quake III: Team Arena CD-ROM
cp /mnt/cdrom/Setup/missionpack/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/missionpack
NOTES:
- If you are running Quake III Arena and Quake III: Team Arena on a
Windows partition, you can save some space by symlinking the game
assets to their windows installation:
ln -s /win/quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3
ln -s /win/quake3/missionpack/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/missionpack/pak0.pk3
(Windows partition is mounted as /win and Quake III Arena installation is C:\quake3)
Getting Help:
- consult the FAQ in Help/Q3A_FAQ.html
- head over to the Quake3World forums http://www.quake3world.com/forums
- consult the list of known issues and tips at
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux